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The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen Publisher Comments Winner of the 2001 National Book Award for Fiction After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, and their children have long since... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover 
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The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon Publisher Comments With uncommon humanity, candor, wit, and erudition, award-winning author Andrew Solomon takes the reader on a journey of incomparable range and resonance into the most pervasive of family secrets. His contribution to our understanding not only of mental... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Wild Life by Molly Gloss Staff Pick At the turn of the century, in the primeval forest of the Pacific Northwest, a fiery feminist becomes lost. Struggling to survive, night after terrifying night, she is finally rescued by... Bigfoot!? Huh? No, really — this incredible story works. Gloss... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods by Julia Butterfly Hill Publisher Comments On December 18, 1999, Julia Butterfly Hill's feet touched the ground for the first time in over two years, as she descended from "Luna," a thousandyear-old redwood in Humboldt County, California. Hill had climbed 180 feet up into the tree high on a... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares Publisher Comments Carmen got the jeans at a thrift shop. They didn?t look all that great: they were worn, dirty, and speckled with bleach. On the night before she and her friends part for the summer, Carmen decides to toss them. But Tibby says they?re great. She'd love to... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Dance: Moving to the Rhythms of Your True Self by Or Mountain Dreamer Publisher Comments Welcome to The Dance, the wise and practical book that expands on Oriah Mountain Dreamer′s new moving prose poem. In this compelling book the acclaimed author of The Invitation challenges readers to live with passion, energy, and... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Hardcover
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Speed of Light by Elizabeth Rosner Publisher Comments Every family has a story. Every story, eventually, must be told. For most of their lives, Julian Perel and his sister, Paula, lived in a house cast in silence, witnesses to a father struggling with a devastating secret too painful to share. Though their... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology by Simon Winchester Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-310).... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Ava's Man by Rick Bragg From Powells.com In his memoir All Over but the Shoutin', Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Rick Bragg paid loving tribute to his mother and his dirt-poor upbringing in Alabama. Encouraged by readers who begged for more information about his mother — where... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $5.25 Sale - Hardcover
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Dhalgren (Vintage) by Samuel R. Delany Publisher Comments In Dhalgren, perhaps one of the most profound and bestselling science fiction novels of all time, Samuel R. Delany has produced a novel "to stand with the best American fiction of the 1970s" (Jonathan Lethem). Bellona is a city at the dead center of... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times by Pema Chodron Publisher Comments In The Places That Scare You, Pema Chö drö n continues the teachings of When Things Fall Apart, showing how at the core of the most painful experiences lie the seeds of spiritual awakening. Here she presents key teachings on recognizing and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Sherlock in Love by Sena J Naslund Publisher Comments Chapter One>The Present Holmes was dead: to begin with. And had been dead for well onto two years. And who was I without Holmes? He had been my dearest friend. He had served as that fixed point around which my life as a storyteller revolved. Sometimes... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook: Feasting with Your Slow Cooker by Phyllis Good Publisher Comments The "Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook" offers over 800 recipes for a wide range of dishes that can be prepared in slow cookers, including appetizers and snacks, soups and stews, main dishes (with and without meat), vegetables, and so much more!... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Vertigo by Winfried Georg Sebald Publisher Comments Vertigo, W. G. Sebald's first novel, never before translated into English, is perhaps his most amazing and certainly his most alarming. Sebald--the acknowledged master of memory's uncanniness--takes the painful pleasures of unknowability to new... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure by Don Kladstrup Publisher Comments In 1940, France fell to the Nazis and almost immediately the German army began a campaign of pillaging one of the assets the French hold most dear: their wine. Like others in the French Resistance, winemakers mobilized to oppose their occupiers, but the... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood Publisher Comments Margaret Atwood takes the art of storytelling to new heights in a dazzling new novel that unfolds layer by astonishing layer and concludes in a brilliant and wonderfully satisfying twist. For the past twenty-five years, Margaret Atwood has written works... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Nine Minutes, Twenty Seconds: The Tragedy and Triumph of ASA Flight 529 by Gary Pomerantz Publisher Comments 6:45 to Impact. Robin Fech pushed the PA button, turned to face her twenty-six passengers, and said, “The cockpit crew has confirmed we have an emergency. We have an engine failure.” She announced that the plane was headed back to Atlanta... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Milking the Moon: A Southerner's Story of Life on This Planet by Eugene Walter Publisher Comments “I’ve had a great life, and it all happened because I didn’t plan any of it.” -- Eugene Walter Eugene Walter was the best-known man you’ve never heard of. In his 76 years, he ate of “the ripened heart of life,”... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Graves Are Not Yet Full: Race, Tribe, and Power in the Heart of Africa by Bill Berkeley Publisher Comments Since 1983 journalist Bill Berkeley has traveled through Africa's most troubled lands to seek out the tyrants and military leaders who orchestrate these nations' seemingly intractable wars. Shattering once and for all the myth that ancient tribal hatreds... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Stories of MR. Keuner (01 Edition) by Bertolt Brecht Publisher Comments Fiction. Politics. Translated by Martin Chalmers. STORIES OF MR. KEUNER gathers Bertolt Brecht's fictionalized comments on politics, everyday life, and exile. Written from the late 1920s till the late 1950s, STORIES OF MR. KEUNER is the precipitate of... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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